Two major city public defender organizations slammed the Department of Correction Tuesday for what they described as systemic and “unconstitutional” barriers that prevent incarcerated people on Rikers Island from meeting with their lawyers, including locking lawyers in covered-windowed rooms without bathroom access for hours. During a Board of Correction hearing in Lower Manhattan, Michael Klinger […]

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